Display-stand.



PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907. H. E. SMITH.

DISPLAY STAND.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 18.1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT ELDREDGE SMITH, OF HAVERHILL, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO PIKE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PIKE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, A CORPORATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

DISPLAY-STAND.

Specification of Letters Patenta Patented June 25, 1907.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT ELDREDGE SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Haverhill, in the county of Grafton, State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and.useful Improvements in Display-Stands, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to display stands such as are designed to be placed upon a table or counter for the purpose of supporting and exhibiting articles to be sold, and it has especial reference to a display stand adapted to support a plurality of knife Sharpeners.

The object of my invention is to produce a display stand for the purpose above set forth which may be readily taken apart so as to occupy but little space when packed for transportation, which may be readily assembled and set up for use, and which when assembled will be a strong and rigid device for the purposes enumerated.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the improved display stand illustrated in the accompanying drawings, de-

scribed in the following specification and particularly claimed in the concluding claim.

In the drawings to which reference is herein made: Figure l is a sectional view of my improved display stand taken upon a vertical plane passing through the axis thereof, and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view showing a detail of construction.

1 designates the supporting base of my display stand.

2 is a vertical supporting column secured to the base by a threaded connection at 3, and serving as a support for a perforated disk 4 which forms a guide and support for the upper end of the articles supported by my stand, as indicated conventionally by dotted lines in Fig. l. The upper end of the column 2 is provided with a reduced portion 5 extending through an opening in the disk 4, and with a shoulder 6;-and a second. reduced portion 7 projects from the reduced portion 5.

8 is a standard extending above the perforated disk 4 and having a recess 9 at its lower end adapted to engage the projection 7, and to rest with its lower end in engagement with the shoulder 5 and the adjacent portion of the disk 4. The upper end of the'standard 8 is provided with a slit 10 in which a card containing advertising or descriptive matter relating to the articles supported by the stand may be placed.

The length of the reduced portion 5 is equal to the thickness of the disk 4; and it will be seen that the said disk will be securely held between the shoulder 6 and the periphery of the lower end of the standard 8 (which as above pointed out is of greater diameter than the projection 5 so that it will engage the adj acent portion of the disk 4) when the stand is assembled. The projection 7 and recess 9 are of such diameters as to fit tightly when assembled, to thereby increase the rigidity of the stand.

The lower end of the standard 8 is provided with a projecting steel pin or key 11, and 12 is a key-way formed partly in the reduced portion 5 and partly in the disk 4 as shown in Fig. 2, into which the key 1 1 enters when the parts are assembled. By this construction it will be seen that the disk 4 is pre vented from turning upon the reduced portion 5 when the parts are assembled. The disk 4 is shown as provided with two concentric series of openings 13 and 14, and 15 and 16 are two annular grooves concentric with the column 2 formed in the base 1 and in which the lower ends of articles supported and displayed by the stand are adapted to rest, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to. secure by Letters Patent: 1. In a display stand, a base; a supporting column carried thereby and having a shoul der and a reduced portion at its upper end; a perforated supporting disk adapted to rest upon said shoulder and having an opening through which said reduced portion extends; a standard extending above said disk, the lower end thereof being in engagement with said reduced portion and with the portion of said disk adjacent the opening therein and means whereby said disk is prevented from turning upon said column.

2. In a display stand, a base a supporting column carried thereby and having a sho'ullower end thereof being in engagement with said reduced portion and with the portion of said disk adjacent the opening therein; a keyway formed in said reduced portion and o ening; and a key carried by the lower end 0 said standard and adapted to enter said key-way when the stand is assembled.

3. In a display stand, a base; a supporting column carried thereby; an annular groove formed in said base concentric with said column; a supporting disk carried by said column and having a series of concentrically arranged openings in vertical alinement with said groove; a standard extending above said disk; and a slit in the upper end of said stand ard.

4. In a display stand, a base; a supporting column carried thereby and in threaded engagement therewith; an annular groove formed in said base concentric with said column; a shoulder formed at the upper end of said column; a reduced portion extending above said shoulder; a supporting disk adapted to rest upon said shoulder and having an opening through which said reduced portion extends; a standard extending above said disk, the lower end thereof being in engage- I ment with said reduced portion and with the portion of said disk adjacent the aforesaid opening therein; a slit in the upper end of said standard; and a series of concentrically arranged openings in said disk in vertical alinement with the groove in said base.

5. In a display stand, a base; a supporting column carried thereby and in threaded engagement therewith; an annular groove formed in said base concentric with said column; a shoulder formed at the upper end of said column; a reduced portion extending above said shoulder; a supporting disk adapted to rest upon said shoulder and having an opening through which said reduced portion extends; a series of concentrically arranged openings in said disk; a standard in engagement with said reduced portion and extending above said disk; and a slit in the upper end of said standard.

This specification signed and witnessed this twenty-sixth day 0? April A. D. 1907.

HERBERT ELDREDGE SMITH.

In the presence of- WM. H. FosTER, F. S. REED. 

